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Superior E468. A straight Anxiety 4th and foundation sire for us.
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Idaman wrote:
Superior E468. A straight Anxiety 4th and foundation sire for us.
Idaman wrote:Franklin Nash had many sides to his personality and quite wide interests.
For one thing he was a very big fan of classical music. He was very involved with the local fine arts committee and had season tickets to their programs in his home town. I ddon't think he missed a concert if at all possible. One fall he insisted that my wife and I accompany him and his wife to the winter concerts. I guess he thought that i could use some culture to smooth out my red neck tendencies. I was a country music fan and followed Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride, and Tammy Winette. We went but by spring and several concerts he decided we weren't as enthralled as he had hoped so he kindly dropped the idea. Maybe the year before he had a membership quota to make as I noticed that the concerts were not heavily attended.
Another side to him was his love of agate and the making of belt buckles and bolo ties out of some of the most beautiful agate in the world. With his agate interest he made the buckles and bolos and took a course at a local community college to learn the art of silversmithing. He was really very good and I still have several belt buckles and bolos that he made. They are really treasured. He also had the most extensive collection of agate and arrow heads I have ever seen even though my experience is somewhat limited in that area.
Another facet was his love of still life paintings. He became acqunaited with a local artist that was really talented. Our house is filled with this mans paintings and we sure get lots of comments on their beauty. This is one area Franklin really got me interested and involved.
In this vein he got acquainted with a convict from the state prison, that was in our home town. Franklin wanted him to paint some pictures of his cattle from photographs. The guy was totally amazing and he was incarcerated for you guessed it, forgery. We were so impressed that I even contracted him to do a picture of Carls old herd bull and gave it to Carl. This guy could write with both hands sentences that you had to hold up to a mirror to read. He could also write a sentence backwards with his right hand and the same sentence forward with his left hand.
I have always been grateful for the diversity Franklin brought to my life.
1914 Hereford wrote:I am Franklin's daughter, Jane Nash Deewall.
"it is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
3waycross wrote:Idaman wrote:
Superior E468. A straight Anxiety 4th and foundation sire for us.
Idaman wrote:
Superior E468. A straight Anxiety 4th and foundation sire for us.
Idaman wrote:E468 was purchased from a man over near Aspen, Colorado. He was a new comer to the business having developed most of the land further down that valley, He had purchased the bull on his mother in a dispersion down in Texas. I bought him that day along with quite a few Pastorius cows that he also had. He would not sell me the dam of E468 which I lamented as she was bred back to the same bull. I have in my mind that he came, maybe several generations back, from the Pied Piper Farms, but I am not sure. I will try to research that and get back.
I was put on to this bull by a head extension agent from CSU who had been working with me on breeding cattle along the Hesperus way. His first name was Paul and I have been racking by brain for days to try to remember his last name. If anyone on here knows that please let me know. He also insisted that I get acquainted with Carl Martin as Carl was known more through the performance crowd than the conventional cattle circles.
When Paul told me about E468 or "Superior" as we called him, Paul said just go buy that calf no matter what. Great advice.

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This is the final day for International Pop Overthrow-Chicago 2013. Tonight's showcase at the Red Line Tap offers prime examples of Chicago style power pop, along with an out-of-state visitor. If you haven't checked the IPO-Chicago online schedule in awhile, you should be aware that some changes have taken place. For much more detailed info than I'm providing here at the last minute, along with the full schedule and links to all the artists, see the IPO website.
Slushy, a duo comprised of guitarist-vocalist Chris and drummer-guitarist-vocalist Brent, describe their music as "fuzzed-out confections from Chicago."
The Redfords started as a studio band in 2007, and their indie pop songs have been played on WXRT and other local stations.
92 Degrees was one of three Chicago bands that participated in the very first International Pop Overthrow in Los Angeles back in 1998 (The Idea and The Critics were the other two) and they've been an integral part of IPO- Chicago right from the start. The trio hasn't released anything in awhile, but the classic power pop songs from their vinyl EP, Money Makes The World Go 'Round and self-titled CD are as vibrant as ever. They've taken over for The Valley Downs on tonight's schedule (bassist-vocalist Make Galassini is in both bands).
South Carolina-based A Fragile Tomorrow's latest effort, Be Nice Be Careful, which was produced by Mitch Easter of Let's Active, is now available. The quartet, which has toured in support of The Bangles and R.E.M., will likely be playing songs from it during its show tonight.
The Queue seems like a perfect name for a group heavily influenced by the original British Invasion, and when I saw these guys a few years back, they certainly did their moniker proud.
Mike Vanderbilt performed a solo IPO-Chicago gig a few nights back, and tonight he returns with The Romeros. I really enjoyed this the last time I saw them at IPO-Chicago, and since its future is in doubt, tonight would be a great time to catch them.
The Van Buren Boys promise their Chicago rock 'n' roll/power pop will be "fun with a capital F."


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How puppies become anxious 'home alone' dogs
With the recent Channel 4 documentary 'Dogs: Their Secret Lives'1 in the UK raising awareness of the welfare issues of 'home alone' dogs and separation related behaviours (SRBs), I am sticking with this theme for my next blog. Identifying and appropriately treating affected dogs with validated and tailored treatment programmes is important2,3,4; but considering the extent of this worrying welfare problem, prevention is paramount.
Giving puppies the right experiences of being left alone from the start goes a long way to preventing separation related behaviours (SRBs) or separation anxiety later in life. As is so often the case when considering the prevention of problem behaviours, putting in time and thought during the early life of a puppy is beneficial in the long-term.
Research suggests that puppies show behavioural responses to separation from 3 weeks of age5, and increased cortisol (a physiological indicator of the stress response) on separation from 5 weeks6. The process of getting puppies used to short periods of separation should therefore start with the breeder. Initially puppies need to be picked up and just momentarily held away from littermates. The gradual process of habituation to being alone should then continue when puppies go to their new homes, and there are various resources describing how to go about this1,7,8,10. The aim of this blog is to illustrate why following these guidelines is so important for the long-term welfare of dogs.
Taking a "dog's point of view" of being left alone is perhaps the best way to consider this. I would like to use the example of 'Frodo' a Jack Russell terrier, and I invite you to imagine him arriving for the first time in his new home at 10 weeks of age. He has just been picked up from the breeder's house and brought home to his new family. He has settled in pretty well considering the complete change in his world, and has started to learn about his new social group – the members of the Mitchell family. He has been with the family all afternoon and enjoyed all the attention, but now it is bedtime, and Frodo is settled into an indoor kennel in the kitchen and left alone. This is the first time he has ever been all alone, having always been with littermates or mum before. He is worried, and reacts by scrabbling about at the door of his kennel and crying loudly. Mr Mitchell hears his cries and comes back to settle him down again. Frodo settles down when he has company, but when Mr Mitchell heads off to bed again, he starts to cry straight away, bringing his owner back to the kitchen.
In this first scenario, Frodo finds being alone new and scary, but also learns that crying is an effective 'strategy' to resolve his anxiety – because it is successful at regaining social contact. He has not learnt to be OK on his own, but has learnt an active response to address this incredibly scary problem that works for him. As time moves on in this example, Mr Mitchell may get fed up of coming down and reassuring his new puppy, and stay in bed with ear plugs in. Because crying has always worked before, Frodo may carry on crying for a long time, and maybe also start howling. He will become more and more anxious, waiting for someone to come. Eventually Mrs Mitchell might wake up and come to settle him down. So Frodo learns that even if he has to cry for a long time, it will eventually work – in other words it is worth persisting with crying even if it doesn't work immediately. Frodo is already well on the way to developing an active SRB. He may go through life always being anxious about being left alone, persistently crying and howling in an attempt to resolve his distress – because he has learnt that, at least sometimes, this will work to get back with his social group.
Imagine now, in a parallel universe (scenario 2), that he managed to get the door of his indoor kennel to ping open by scrabbling at it on that first occasion he was left alone, enabling him to run into another room to find his human family. Because scrabbling worked to resolve his situation, he would be more likely to scrabble at the door the next time he was put in the kennel – and if the door fixing was still dodgy, he might get out again. In this scenario, Frodo might develop an active destructive response to being left alone which persists throughout life.
Because these behaviours – howling and destruction – are a 'problem' for owners, advice in the past has commonly been to make sure that the first signs of such responses are not reinforced. Prevention advice used to focus on not 'giving in' to crying or scrabbling, but leaving the puppy alone to make sure that these responses were not rewarded by owner return. This approach meant that these behaviours would not become 'successful' and less likely to become SRBs. That is true, but there is a considerable problem with this approach. Behavioural signs may not be so obvious, but nothing has been done to stop the puppy being anxious about being left alone.
Now imagine Frodo in his kennel in yet another parallel universe (scenario 3). This time his owners have heard that they should completely ignore any responses to being left alone. The family go off and leave Frodo in his kennel, they all put in earplugs and go off to sleep. He is terrified, trapped in his kennel. He cries and cries, and scrabbles and scrabbles, but nobody comes. He tries again, crying and scrabbling. He gets so anxious that he toilets in his bed. He gets exhausted after a time, and gives up trying to get out or to get attention – finding that whatever he does there is no way of controlling his situation or resolving the cause of his anxiety. He goes quiet, terrified and shivering in his wet bed and waits…and waits… (better stop there, before I make myself cry!)
In this scenario, no problem behaviours are reinforced, but Frodo is still very anxious about being left – possibly more so as he has no active strategy that he can try to have some control over his environment. Although Frodo may not have an obvious 'problem' SRB as he grows up, he is very likely to still be anxious when left alone – and may remain so for life. He is likely to end up as one of the dogs which show more subtle signs of anxiety and perhaps physiological signs of stress (termed the 'inactive anxious' group in our research9) when he is left alone – worried about being alone but having no active coping response to help him deal with this.
Perhaps we should finish by leaving poor Frodo in a more positive universe. This time (scenario 4), his owners had better advice, and have trained him gradually to be comfortable in his indoor kennel from the time that he first arrived7. They made sure they were at home for the first couple of weeks after Frodo arrived, and used this time to teach him very gradually to tolerate being on his own in the indoor kennel, before they went back to work. On the first night they put the kennel close to them in their bedroom, and over the following days they gradually moved the kennel slightly further away, in small increments, as long as Frodo remained settled. By the fifth night he was calmly sleeping in the hallway. Things are heading in the right direction for a separation related behaviour free future!
- http://dogs.channel4.com
- Blackwell, E. J., Casey, R.A. and Bradshaw, J.W.S. (2006) Controlled trial of behavioural therapy for separation-related disorders in dogs. Veterinary Record 158 (16): 551-554
- Butler, R., Sargisson, R.J. and Elliffe, D. (2011). The efficacy of systematic desensitisation for treating the separation-related problem behaviour of domestic dogs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 129, 136-145
- http://vetbehaviour.info/dogs/14-separation-related-behaviour/13-what-should-i-do-if-i-suspect-separation-related-behaviour-in-my-dog.html
- Scott, J.P. (1967). The evolution of social behaviour in dogs. American Zoologist, 7, 373-381.
- Nagaswa, M., Shibata, Y., Yonezawa, A., Morita, T., Kanai, M., Mogi, K. and Kikusui, T. (2013) The behavioural and endocrinological development of stress responses in dogs. Developmental Psychobiology, 9999, 1-8.
- http://vetbehaviour.info/dogs/14-separation-related-behaviour/15-preventing-the-development-of-separation-related-behaviour-in-puppies.html
- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/vetscience/services/behaviour-clinic/separation/
- BehaviourVet WordPress blog: Left 'home alone': a welfare issue for dogs
- http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/pets/dogs/company/separationrelatedbehaviour/prevention
Left 'home alone': a welfare issue for dogs
Research over the past ten years with my colleague Dr Emily Blackwell and others at University of Bristol has highlighted just how common it is for dogs to have a negative response to being left home alone. Problem behaviours that dogs show when left alone are often described as separation anxiety, although we generally prefer to use the term 'separation related behaviour' (SRB). This is because dogs can show these behaviours for a number of reasons, and SRB is a 'catch-all' for dogs showing these signs (i.e. without implying that the cause is anxiety). Signs of SRB include barking, howling, destruction and toileting.
Our research has included owner surveys, where we have asked owners whether their dogs do things like bark, howl or scratch at the door when they are left at home alone. In these studies between 13% and 18% of owners reported that their dog showed some kind of separation related behaviour (SRB)1,2,3.
These surveys give us an idea of the problem – but they rely on owners knowing that their dogs show SRBs when they go out. This means that dog owners are only likely to report SRB if they come back to find some evidence of destruction, see that their dog has toileted, or hear from a neighbour that their pet was barking or howling. Suspecting that this was actually the tip of the iceberg in terms of what was going on for dogs themselves, we did a small study with the Blue Cross4 some years ago. This involved video recording dogs whose owners thought were fine to be left home alone – and found that a surprising proportion showed signs of SRB.
Building on this work, we have recently done a project which is featured in Channel 4's 'Dogs: Their Secret Lives'5. In this study, we video recorded 40 dogs in two Bristol postcodes when their owners went out of the house. We also collected saliva samples from the dogs both before and after they were left. This was to measure whether levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with the stress response, increased after dogs were left alone.
We expected to see quite a few dogs showing signs of SRB that owners were not aware of. We also thought there would be quite a few dogs showing more subtle signs of anxiety. But we were surprised by the numbers of dogs showing these signs in the group: the majority of the dogs in the population – over 80% – showed some negative response when left by their owners.
Two of the dogs in the study were excluded from the analysis because they were out of sight of the cameras for most of the time we filmed. But, as shown in Figure 1 below, only five of the remaining 38 dogs did not show behavioural or physiological indicators of stress when left alone. The rest of the dogs were divided into two groups. The first group was dogs which showed obvious behavioural signs – these included those that might be classified as having SRB, because they showed 'problem behaviours' such as barking or howling – but also included dogs which showed other 'active' responses, such as running between the window to look out and the door to listen for their owners' return. Thirteen (34%) of the dogs were in this group. The other group of 18 dogs (47%) included those who did not show obvious or active behavioural signs – but clearly showed more subtle behavioural indicators of stress, such as postural indicators of anxiety.
This was a small study, and more research is needed before the findings can be extrapolated to the wider dog population, but it does highlight the extent that being left alone can be a problem for dogs.
The numbers of dogs affected, together with the impact on the well-being of each individual animal, convinces me that this is one of the major welfare issues for domestic dogs in the modern world. I was therefore happy to see that is was made one of the top eight welfare priorities by the Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog Breeding6 (usually known as the Dog Advisory Council) in 2011. I am also pleased that Channel 4 is highlighting the extent to which this is a welfare issue for dogs in their documentary. It is an important problem, and rather sadly, one that is largely preventable if puppies are given appropriate early experience of being left alone.
You can find more information and advice about separation related behaviour in dogs by following this link to my web-site: http://vetbehaviour.info/dogs/separation-related-behaviours.html
- Bradshaw, J.W.S., Blackwell, E.J., Rooney, N.J. and Casey, R.A. (2002). Prevalence of separation related behaviour in dogs in southern England. In: Proceedings of the 8th ESVCE Meeting on Veterinary Behavioural Medicine, Granada, Spain. Eds. J. Dehasse, E. Biosca Marce. Publibook, France. Pp 189-193.
- Bradshaw, J.W.S., McPherson, J.A., Casey, R.A. and Larter, I.S. (2002). Aetiology of separation related behaviour in the domestic dog. Veterinary Record, 151, 43-46.
- Unpublished data on separation related behaviour prevalence, collected as a comparison for the occurrence of noise associated fears, reported in: Blackwell, E.J., Bradshaw, J.W.S. and Casey, R.A. (2013). Fear responses to noises in domestic dogs: Prevalence, risk factors and co-occurrence with other fear related behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 145, 15-25.
- http://www.bluecross.org.uk/1958-2791/alone-at-home.html
- 'Dogs: Their Secret Lives' screened on Monday October 14th at 8pm, http://dogs.channel4.com
- Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog Breeding: The first eight welfare priorities


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The touch-screen mobile phone market has exploded in recent times. Since the launch of Apple's iconic iPhone 3G almost every mobile phone manufacturer has scrambled for a slice of the touch-screen pie. This is great news for consumers, as it has provided more competition and, ultimately, better and more capable touch-screen mobile phones.
The wow factor surrounding the launch of the original Apple iPhone in the US was hard to ignore. Previously, touch-screen technology was an afterthought in the mobile phone market. But Apple changed the phone landscape by providing an easy to use and eye-catching interface.
Although the iPhone certainly took the world by storm, there are plenty of alternatives. Here is out guide to the best-touch screen handsets on the market.
Apple iPhone 3G
You really didn't think we could round-up the best touch-screen phones on the market and not include the iPhone, did you? While many consumers are probably sick of the immense popularity of this handset, there is no doubting its appeal. The multi-touch interface is superb and the Web browsing experience with Safari is still unsurpassed. With the forthcoming 3.0 firmware update, many of the deficiencies of the phone will be remedied: iPhone users will have access to copy and paste, MMS messages and A2DP Bluetooth.
Apple's iPhone may not have all the bells and whistles of competing smartphones, but its appealing user interface will ensure it remains an appealing choice, despite the existence of feature-packed alternatives.
Samsung Omnia i900
Powered by Windows Mobile, Samsung's Omnia attempts to push the clunky Windows interface as far into the background as possible. It only half succeeds though, as the further you delve into this handset the quicker you realise this is still largely a Windows Mobile smartphone with a nice coat of paint. The main attraction of the Omnia is its features list — HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 8GB of internal memory and a 5-megapixel camera. Samsung has thrown everything in bar the kitchen sink.
HTC Touch Pro
Another Windows Mobile–powered device with an overlaying interface, HTC's Touch Pro has one feature that definitely trumps the iPhone — a physical, slide-out keyboard. Despite the keyboard, the handset manages to retain a sleek and stylish design and offers a wealth of features. Borrowing inspiration from Apple, HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface certainly delivers a lot of eye candy, and most of it is functional too.
LG Renoir
LG's Renoir is certainly impressive. A whopping 8-megapixel camera is the main attraction, and the touch-screen interface is excellent. Although it isn't perfect, the Renoir is undoubtedly the best camera phone we've ever reviewed.
HTC Dream
The HTC Dream is a strong smartphone effort overall and the Google Android OS has a lot of potential. The Dream is missing some critical hardware and software features that prevent it from being a standout handset, but early adopters and gadget freaks will be excited by the Android operating system.
RIM BlackBerry Storm
Exclusive to Vodafone in Australia, the BlackBerry Storm is RIM's first attempt at a touch-screen phone. The Storm features a "clickable" touch screen to simulate the pressing of actual buttons, differentiating itself from the rest of the touch-screen smartphones on the market. The lack of Wi-Fi connectivity is a huge letdown, though, and while the Storm is an admirable smartphone it falls short in a few areas.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
We had to wait a long time for the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1; it was announced almost a year before it was released in Australia. It's not the game-changing handset that it looked like it would be when it was first announced, but the panel system has its merits and the display and design of this smartphone are first class.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Nokia's first touch-screen mobile phone, the 5800 XpressMusic is not an iPhone killer but it provides a solid building block as Nokia moves into this space. This smartphone packs in plenty of features, but it falls short in terms of usability due to the resistive touch screen and an unorthodox text input method.
HTC Touch HD
Boasting a screen larger than the iPhone 3G's, HTC's Touch HD is attempting to steal the limelight from Apple. Although the screen isn't full high definition, it is one of the best on the market. Combined with HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface, the Touch HD is one of HTC's best smartphones yet.


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Ivy's black residents: Faulconer is merely the latest assault
On the eve of a key decision on a construction company's effort to locate itself near a bucolic village, questions– including allegations of racial bias– have arisen over official decisions made 30 years ago. Why did Albemarle County allow industrial zoning in the midst of a historic black community?
"Nobody cared what happened to this community when it was a black community," says Bessie Jackson, an African American who grew up in the Morgantown Road neighborhood.
While today it's considered a privileged and mostly white suburb, historic Ivy was a rural African-American enclave. Some of those original residents say their rights were trampled in the late '60s and early '70s.
"Nobody was in our corner when Dettor [Edwards and Morris] moved in here, or when they put in the Ivy landfill," says Jackson.
Tom Hutchinson, president of the Ivy Community Association and also a Morgantown Road resident, says the neighborhood was promised a fishing lake if they supported the rezoning. The rezoning happened. The lake did not.
"They promised a bill of goods" for neighborhood support, says Jackson. "There was opposition, but they had a petition to get people to go along by promising a rec center."
A sketch of the lake is still on file at the county, according to planner Yadira Amarante, but she says there's no evidence of a promised recreation center in return for neighborhood support. And two long-time residents of the neighborhood– Oneida Smith and Henry Ivory– recall petitions both for and against locating Dettor Edwards and Morris there, but don't recall promises of a fishing lake.
According to county records, William Dettor obtained a business zoning designation in 1970 for his wholesale food distribution warehouse, which went out of business in the mid-'90s. The Hook was unable to reach Dettor.
That land is now the Ivy Industrial Park, zoned for light industrial use. That's where Faulconer Construction has purchased 27 acres for $335,000, according to Hutchinson.
Down the road from the Faulconer property is Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. "If this was a predominantly white neighborhood with a 130-plus-years-old church," says Jackson, "there's no way this would be happening."
Jackson's father picked up a dynamite cap when he was six years old and lost his thumb and two fingers. With Faulconer's explosives moving into the area, she fears such an accident could happen to some other unsuspecting child.
Oneida Smith, 83, a retired schoolteacher, has lived in Ivy all her life and on Morgantown Road since 1946. She worries about the traffic rumbling up narrow Morgantown Road if Faulconer moves in– just as it did when Dettor Edwards played host to 18-wheelers from all over the country. "I was concerned about the children on the road waiting for the bus," she recalls.
Henry Ivory, Jackson's uncle, was born on Turner Mountain, back in what he calls "the horse and buggy days." Now 87, he lives within sight of the Faulconer property, and he's concerned about the traffic, too. "I don't think anyone here wants it, especially with Murray [Elementary School] and the nursery school [Millstone Preschool] here," he says.
For Jackson, Faulconer's move into the neighborhood would further erode a black community already faced with "being a minority in our own neighborhood." And she thinks the county needs to be held accountable for its zoning decisions.
However, the decision to zone the property for business in 1970 made sense at the time, says county planner Amarante. "That property was already slated for industrial use, and it had a railroad siding," she says.
Last week, The Hook reported on a civics class for elementary children that is using the Faulconer situation as a opportunity for real-life learning. Ivy Community Association treasurer Carrie Colson points out the Association itself is not a sponsor, although Association members are involved with the class.
Nor is the Ivy Community Association responsible for flyers, described by one West Leigh recipient as "scare-mongering," that are being delivered door-to-door with a North Carolina newspaper clipping headlined, "3 students die in bus wreck."
A presage of what would happen after Faulconer moves in? Maybe not– the story's fine print indicates that the bus probably ran a stop sign into the path of a dump truck.
The Ivy Community Association is preparing a "peaceful demonstration" at the County Office Building February 4 an hour before the Planning Commission meeting to consider Faulconer's site plan. "There's going to be a huge turnout," predicts Hutchinson.
The site plan already has the county planning staff's blessing– which is not what the ICA expected. "I'm shocked they'd be so unprofessional," blasts Hutchinson.
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Splash Gives $2,083 to D.A.R.E during the Rippowam Cisqua School Grade five Drug Abuse Resistance Education Graduation.
At the end of the sixteen-week program, a graduation ceremony is held. Since it is important for the whole family to celebrate the child's accomplishments, graduation takes place at night instead of during the school day, allowing most parents to attend.
At the graduation itself, there are CARE students who speak, and there are also the DARE essay winners who read their pieces. Besides essay winners, there are the Character Awards, where teachers recommend a student who shows a positive attitude and models the behavior of a good DARE student.


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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers are calling for a review of the country's ties with Britain because of its "interference in Iran's recent post-election unrest," government-funded Press TV reported Monday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki accused Britain of interfering in the country's recent vote.
Iran's influential parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, submitted the request Monday to the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission which called on the Foreign Ministry to review the relationship, the report said.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran favors the expansion of relations with all countries, but will never accept interference of other states in its internal affairs," commission spokesman Kazem Jalali said, according to Press TV.
Britain on Monday said it was withdrawing the family members of its embassy staff members from Iran until the situation there improves.
The British Foreign Office also announced it is advising British nationals to avoid non-essential travel to Iran, according to a statement posted on its Web site.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki blamed Britain for interfering in the elections, saying it had been planning against the vote for more than a year.
"We witnessed an influx of people from the UK ahead of the election," he said, without offering specifics.
Mottaki accused Britain of supporting followers of the Baha'i faith, a religion that originated in 19th-century Persia but which Iran does not recognize.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Mottaki was trying to turn an internal dispute into a battle between Iran and other countries.
"I reject categorically the idea that the protesters in Iran are manipulated or motivated by foreign countries," he said in a statement.
Mottaki also said the West expects a different model of democracy from developing countries.
Last week, Britain summoned Iran's ambassador to the country after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused Britain, as well as the United States and Israel, of manipulating and undermining the electoral process.
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Author Notes: I'm not ready for pears yet. I'm still trying to get my fill of peaches, corn and juicy ripe tomatoes. You know, the summer stuff. Turning my attention to pears and apples feels like packing away my summer sandals before I've even had a chance to wear them. But even though I'm not ready for pears yet, the pears are definitely ready for me. The little pear tree in our backyard has already dropped about sixty of them. They drop on the ground one at a time with a little thud, and roll down the stone path towards the house, practically knocking on the kitchen door. They can no longer be ignored. It's time to get cooking.
I'm a sucker for the pear and ginger combo, so I created a pear ginger sauce and then adapted the "Applesauce Spice Muffins" recipe from Epicurious (Gourmet, November 2003) to fit my fancy.
You can make the pear ginger sauce ahead of time and store it in the fridge for a few days or in the freezer for a few weeks. The quantities listed here are perfect for one batch of muffins, but I usually double or triple the pear sauce recipe and keep some in my freezer for the next batch of muffins, or to serve over crepes, french toast, or ice cream.
—Ms. T
Food52 Review: Ms. T's muffins are a wonderful breakfast treat. The pear and ginger combo is wonderful and the use of fresh and ground ginger results in a well developed flavor. The pear sauce retains lots of pear chunks that are a great treat in the muffins. I used fresh (non-frozen) ginger and loved the 2 tablespoons ginger in the sauce, but feel free to adjust to your preferences. – biffbourgeois —Stephanie Bourgeois
Makes: one dozen medium-sized muffins
Pear Ginger Sauce
small, ripe pears (Bartlett or similar), peeled, cored and diced. Should yield about 2 cups.
tablespoon unsalted butter
cup sugar
tablespoons grated ginger (I keep my peeled ginger root in the freezer and grate it with a microplane when I need it, which tends to make the gratings a little fluffy. So if you're using fresh, unfrozen ginger, you might want a little less)
1 1/2
cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2
teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon baking soda
teaspoon ground ginger for batter + 1/2 teaspoon for topping
teaspoon salt
cup sugar for batter + 2 tablespoons for topping
stick (1/2 cup), plus 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
cup pear ginger sauce (recipe above)
1 1/2
cups walnuts, coarsely chopped
Pear Ginger Sauce
- Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. When butter is melted and frothy add pears, tossing with a wooden spoon to coat.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar, stirring to combine. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low.
- Add grated ginger and cook over low heat for about 15 minutes, until pears are soft and most of the liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat and allow to cool for at least 15-20 minutes.
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F. Grease muffin pan.
- Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, 1 teaspoon of ground ginger, and salt in a bowl.
- Whisk together eggs and 1/3 cup sugar in a large bowl until combined well, then add butter whisking or blending with electric mixer until creamy.
- Stir in pear ginger sauce, then fold in flour mixture to combine. Stir in 1 cup of walnuts and divide batter among muffin cups.
In a small bowl, combine remaining 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/2 cup walnuts. Sprinkle topping evenly on top of muffins. Bake until muffins are golden and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 5 minutes, then remove muffins from pan and cool slightly. Enjoy with coffee, preferably in a sunny spot in the backyard.
Once cooled completely, the muffins can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature 1 day, or in the freezer for about a week.
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You call yourselves "baby whisperers" and "experts" on how to get babies to sleep and though you write books telling parents exactly how to care for their children, it seems as though you all require a bit of a brush up on your education. You see, when I see some mother buying your books, or hear of your appearances on TV talking about your "advice", my heart breaks for the children of the parents who are blindly following what you promote. You make assumptions that shouldn't be made, and all the while parents follow your advice without knowing any better and hoping they're doing best for their baby. And you do so with no regard for the plethora of scientific evidence that is out there suggesting your methods not only are wrong, but can actually harm babies. I thought, given the fact that I am a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology with access to every peer-reviewed journal there is, I would offer you some free (a word you hardly use) lessons on the myriad topics of parenting you are so fond of writing about. At first I thought this would be a one-off lesson covering everything, but I have realized that is foolish and would be way too long for one lesson – you obviously need time to integrate everything and learn what it is that's out there before you start preaching to the masses again – so we will do this over several lessons, each covering one topic.
Where to begin? I thought about this and settled on a history of what we know about crying. Given your overarching mission of getting babies to stop crying either during the day or at night, it seems that you require a bit more of an understanding of both why babies cry and what it can mean when a baby isn't crying. So let's begin…
Why does a baby cry?
The simple answer to this is to have his or her needs met. The more complex answer starts with the fact that crying is the only form of communication young babies have (until they start to learn to vocalize or sign), and evolutionarily it has developed in such a way to make parents want to stop it. (Of note, parents can use their baby's cues to pick up on what he or she needs, but these cues are technically not a form of communication as they are not done by an infant with the express intent of telling the other what they need.) It grates on your ears and breaks your heart so that you will address your baby's needs promptly, NOT so that you ignore it in hopes of it ending. And depending on the type of cry (because your child will have different cries for different needs), the way they expect you to respond will differ, but they will expect you to respond. It doesn't matter if you're sleeping or not or if your baby is sleeping, physiologically a baby will cry when it needs something unless he or she has a) been trained not to, or b) is in a physiological state that would reduce his or her ability to cry. All of you, whether you claim to be against crying-it-out or not, promote forms of leaving an infant to cry. And all of you promote ways of "training" your baby not to cry. So really, you're proposing to ignore your baby's needs and train them to stop communicating those needs with you. We need to be clear about this as it is critically important that you fully understand the key role crying plays in an infant's life.
However, the question of why babies cry is pretty simple. Most people are aware on some level that it's telling you something which is why mothers will change dry diapers or put a baby on their breast even if they just ate, all in the name of trying to meet that need. The real question that needs to be asked is that when you have a child who isn't crying or stops crying, why is that?
Why does a baby stop crying?
This is a question that you assume the answer to in all of your training methods and books and sites and advice. You assume that because a baby stops crying, he or she is okay. Or that if after two weeks a baby no longer cries before falling asleep, the baby has learned about sleep time and routines. Most unfortunately for the babies who have to endure the advice you give, this isn't the case. So why do babies really stop crying?
a) The best answer for baby is that his or her needs have been met. Baby was hungry and mom fed her. Baby had a wet diaper and it was changed. The amazing part about this is that attending to a baby's needs promptly will actually reduce crying in the long run in a healthy way. Mary Ainsworth and Silvia Bell, two developmental psychologists, performed a longitudinal study back in the 1970s while at Johns Hopkins University looking at how mothers responded to their infants' cries and how this affected later infant behaviour[1]. What they found was that the more prompt a mother was to respond to her child's cries, regardless of how effective she was at reducing the crying at that particular moment, the less a child cried later on. Furthermore, they also found that close maternal contact (i.e., touch) was the most effective at terminating crying during a given episode. To summarize, when their needs have been met babies will cease to cry. Furthermore, the more responsive a parent is to an infant's cries, the less likely that child is to cry in the future. Taking this further, the wealth of research on attachment theory demonstrates that the more responsive a parent is in the first year of life, the more securely attached their child is and thus the better the relationship between child and parent[2][3][4][5].
In line with this, Dymphna van den Boom tailored interventions for mothers of irritable 6-month-old infants with a focus on increasing maternal responsiveness and sensitivity to their child[6]. At the end of the 3-month intervention, she found that the mothers in the intervention group were more sensitive, responsive, and stimulating than mothers in the control group and furthermore, the children of these mothers were more sociable, showed greater self-soothing and exploration, and also cried less than their counterparts. The effects of maternal responsiveness on child behaviour also extend into the older ages. Maayan Davidov and Joan Grusec examined maternal responsiveness to distress and maternal warmth in 6-8 year olds and found that greater responsiveness to distress (but not warmth) predicted a child's level of empathy, prosocial behaviour, and negative affect regulation (which would be crying in infancy)[7].
Why is this? Well, you are all right about one thing – babies learn and they learn rapidly. What you are wrong about is what they learn. At a young age, the only thing a baby will truly internalize is a feeling of being responded to and cared for or not and this will play out in future behaviour, including crying, empathy, and helping. We can only know what we have learned, and so a child who learns love and compassion and sensitivity will pass that along in his or her own behaviour, while a child that knows neglect will simply withdraw into themselves. Let us continue to understand more…
b) A second reason an infant may not cry is because there is a physiological or physical reason preventing her from doing so. The most common would be a drastic change in temperature, specifically becoming too hot. While a baby will cry when overheated to a certain degree, as the overheating increases, the chances of crying decrease as the effort it takes to cry increases the core body temperature even more, resulting in an even greater increase in temperature which is antithetical to the infants' well-being. One of you (I'm looking at you Ms. Tizzie Hall), has promoted quite a bit of layering in order to keep babies from waking up in the middle of the night, under the assumption that babies wake because they're cold (not because of the myriad nutritional and comfort benefits of that breast they look for). What are the risks of overheating your infant? The dangers of overheating, or hyperthermia, include seizures, coma, neurological damage, and death[8]. A case study in the late 1970s found that the extreme illnesses of 5 infants (4 of whom died), which included fever, shock, and convulsions prior to death, was most likely due to the overwrapping of infants leading to heatstroke[9]. There is also ample evidence to suggest that hyperthermia plays a role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome[10][11][12], making it hugely important to remember the general rule that babies should have one more layer than adults and that's it. By promoting practices that lead to infants being too warm, you not only lower their ability to cry, but increase their risk of mortality.
c) Finally, the most likely reason a child stops crying during baby training that he has given up or learned that he will not be attended to. If you view a baby crying as a creature trying to manipulate you (as almost all of you do), you will see this as a positive outcome. Indeed, this was the prominent view of children's behaviour in the mid-twentieth century when parents were told not to pick up their children for fear of spoiling them and turning them into little tyrants[13]. This view took hold once learning theory took the helm in psychology, demonstrating people behave in ways related to rewards and failures. John B. Watson was the first psychologist to promote behaviorism as a form of learning and the first to extend it to childhood with his famous 'Little Albert' experiment. The Little Albert experiment was a case study demonstrating classical conditioning (exactly what you all propose in your books) on an 8-month old boy. In this study, the little boy is conditioned to become afraid of white rats. To do this, the boy was brought into a room and sat on a mat while a white lab rat was allowed to roam around. At this time, the boy showed no fear of the rat at all. As he reached out to touch the rat, Watson and his assistant Rayner struck a steel bar with a hammer, scaring Albert and causing him to cry. They continued to do this every time the boy reached for the rat. Eventually Albert tries to get away from the rat, showing he has been conditioned to fear the white rat. Amazingly, at a follow-up over two weeks later, Albert showed distress towards any furry object, showing his conditioning had been generalized and sustained[14]. Based on his work and strong belief in behaviorism, Watson also wrote about child-rearing[15]. His focus was on keeping an emotional distance from children so as not to spoil them; it was his work that led to the promotion of not touching your child too often (sadly he later admitted that he regretted writing about child behaviour because he realized he didn't know enough to do so, but the damage had been done).
So you can teach your child not to cry by conditioning them to not cry. Not responding to them will tell them that their cries will not get them what they need. While you all may view this as a positive, it has a very serious consequence – learned helplessness. The concept of learned helplessness was devised by Martin Seligman in response to behaviorism. Seligman had been doing work with dogs and found that they were not behaving the way behaviorism would predict they should when conditioned[16]. Specifically, he tested dogs who were conditioned to electrical shocks. In two of the groups, the dogs were tethered together such that only one had control over when the electrical shocks would end; to the other dog, it was seemingly random. Seligman (and Maier, his partner in these experiments) found that the group of dogs who did not have control over ending the shocks displayed behaviour much like clinical depression in adults. Furthermore, when these dogs were then given a situation which they did have control over, they failed to act – they simply sat down and gave up. These results have been replicated with other animals, including babies (though in a benign paradigm)[17], all with the same findings – once animals and infants have learned that they do not have control, they cease to attempt to affect their surroundings, even when the surroundings change. Crying it out, strict schedules, and simply behaving as though an infant is attempting to manipulate will lead to the removal of control a child has over his or her environment. Crying is the main form of control an infant has and needs to be treated with the respect we would show another adult talking to us about what they need. And while experiments have not been done that put an infant in harm's way, noted psychologist Dr. Kevin Nugent has found many depressive symptoms in babies whose communication with their parents is lacking. Parents who are unable to respond to or are simply non-responsive to their infant's attempts at communication have babies who display classic signs of major depression[18].
In short, not responding to an infant's attempt at communication will cause them to give up at the very least and possibly demonstrate long-term learned helplessness. This type of non-crying is damaging to a baby's long-term psychological well-being, no matter how beneficial it may be for mom and dad in the present moment.
I hope you have learned here that a) crying is simply a form of communication and the primary one that an infant has, and b) that not all forms of not crying are equal. Infants need to learn that they have control over their environments and can effect change in their lives; they also need to know they are loved and cared for. They do not manipulate their parents – in fact, they are incapable of doing so, and the work of Mary Ainsworth has gone a long way to demonstrate that far from being manipulative, crying leads to communication between caregiver and infant and that this communication leads to a natural reduction in crying as time goes by[1][2]. And most important for you to realize is that simply because a child has stopped crying – as I acknowledge that your trainings will get a child to stop crying – that is not always a good thing. In fact, the only type of crying cessation that is good is that which results from a child's needs being met. The rest is simply setting up the child for either a risk of illness or death (hyperthermia) or psychological damage (learned helplessness). (Note that there is also neurological damage but we'll get to that in another lesson on crying-it-out techniques. You can read about crying-it-out here, including discussions of post-partum depression and sleep.)
Of course, this leads us to what will be the topic of Lesson Two: What are an infant's "needs"? The main thrust of your programs is that you're telling parents that they can leave their child to cry because all of their needs have been met. But you are wrong, so stay tuned…
You can read the entire Educating the Experts series, including new content not available online, in the eBook offered through this site. You can read more about it by clicking here.
Further readings on Emotion in Infants and Attachment Theory, as kindly recommended by Dr. Andreia C.K. Mortensen:
Wolff, P.H. 1987. The development of behavioral states and the expression of emotion in early infancy: New proposals for investigation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bowlby, J. (1969,1982) Attachment [Vol. 1 of Attachment and Loss]. London: Hogarth Press; New York, Basic Books; Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.


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In 2006, group of academics from the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), announced an ambitious plan to launch a new branch of science – Web Science.
These were no ordinary academics. Among the elite group were Sir Tim Berners Lee (the creator or the World Wide Web), Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of ECS.
This group perceived a need to better understand the nature of the Web and to engineer its future and ensure its social benefit. The rationale was that the Web is a construct unrivaled in human history and the scale of its impact and the rate of its adoption are unparalleled.
They recognised a great opportunity to study the Web through a new academic discipline, as well as an obligation to do so.
Web Science came into being in October 2006 with the launch of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), which was later to be renamed the Web Science Trust (WST). Edelman was proud to assist in launch of WSRI, which achieved widespread international media coverage at the time.
Such a huge undertaking as establishing a new branch of science was bound to take some time, but the WST has been hard at work these past few years, putting the concept of Web Science on the academic map, developing curriculum, establishing partnerships, growing a support base and engaging in initial research projects.
Two weeks ago, I attended an event at the Royal Society in London, designed to explain Web Science to prospective students and at an undergraduate level. It was quite exciting to see just how far Web Science has come in a few short years. The auditorium was full and it was clear there was a real interest in the subject, with a lively discussion following presentations from academics and industry representatives.
Unlike Computer Science, Web Science will have an interdisciplinary approach. To this end, participation from students with an interest in humanitarian disciplines such as psychology and anthropology will be as important as more apparently aligned areas such as mathematics and physics.
Yesterday, the evolution of Web Science took a great leap forward with the formation of the Institute for Web Science, which was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a speech in London. Significantly, it will be backed with £30 million funding from the UK Government.
The Institute for Web Science will be led by Sir Tim Berners Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and will be jointly run by the University of Southampton and Oxford University.
According to a statement issued by the University of Southampton, the Institute for Web Science will be designed to make the UK the hub of international research into the next generation of web and internet technologies and their commercialisation.
Web innovation is viewed as an important issue by the government at present and they have also been consulting with Sir Tim Berners Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt on the issue of unlocking government data.
Recently, the government launched a new site called data.gov.uk. The site is a refuse of government data and seeks to provide access to interested companies, organisations and developers for with the aim of encouraging the development of new businesses. It is hoped this will generate tax revenue greater than could have been realised by selling that data for commercial use.
In my opinion, both the funding of the Institute for Web Science and the launch of data.gov.uk are outstanding ideas and that could put the UK at the centre of the Web innovation. At a time when government funding cuts are a central theme from both sides of politics, it's good to see that a long-term view is also being taken.


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More than half of the country experienced "moderate to exceptional" drought conditions at the end of July, the hottest month ever recorded. And the impact of this hot weather has been felt across the nation as crops shrivel and wildfires rage out of control. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
It may come as little surprise with this summer's sweaty nights and blistering days across much of the country, but July marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States, according to government scientists. Furthermore, drought now covers nearly 63 percent of the Lower 48 states, where average precipitation is 0.19 inch below average.
A bit of hope, though, was seen for some crops in the Midwest thanks to cooler temperatures and rain.
According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average temperature across the contiguous United States in July was 77.6 Fahrenheit, a full 3.3 degrees above the 20th century average.
The previous warmest July was in 1936, when the nation's average temperature was 77.4 degrees.
The hot July contributed to a record-warm first seven months of the year and the warmest 12-month period the nation has experienced since accurate record keeping started in 1895.
Virginia experienced its warmest July on record, with a statewide temperature a whopping 4 F above average. In all, 32 states had July temperatures among its 10 warmest, with seven states having their second warmest July on record.
While heat and extreme events such as drought and wildfires are often associated with global warming and climate change, it's unclear if the latest pattern is part of a much larger trend.
Related: Drought socks crops despite recent showers
"These events are kind of what we'd expect with climate change, we'd expect expanding drought, we'd expect warm, record breaking temperatures," Jake Crouch, a NOAA climate scientist, told NBC News. "But it's kind of hard to pinpoint this month or past several months as a telltale sign that climate change is happening. The drought is more of a local factor and isn't necessarily driven by large scale climate change, but is impacting local temperatures. But we've also seen an increase in U.S. temperatures overall."
Still, there's no doubt this summer is taking a human toll, with warmer nights making it difficult for some people to sleep, and causing physical stress, Crouch said.
And the drought rollls on, with drier-than-average conditions continuing across the Central Plains and Midwest. Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri had July precipitation totals ranking among their 10 driest.
Some rain and cooler temperatures in the drought-stricken Midwest, however, are expected to provide relief for late-season soybeans, but the change in the weather is arriving too late to help the already severely damaged corn crop, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday.
"It's definitely better than what we've had but I'd be hesitant to call it a drought-buster. Longer-term outlooks still look like a return to warm and dry," said Jason Nicholls, meteorologist for AccuWeather.
Related: Blame blistering heat waves on global warming, study says
Nicholls said up to three-quarters of an inch of rain, with locally heavier amounts, was expected in roughly 75 percent of the Midwest from Wednesday through Friday morning, and a similar weather system is expected next week.
Though the heat can be uncomfortable, not everyone is complaining. "The heat is definitely a blessing for us after coming off the warm, dry winter without a lot of weather events," Alan Ayers, general manager at Crisafulli Brothers Plumbing and Heating Contractors in Albany, told The Associated Press.
The 73-year-old company has seen an 18 percent increase in new air conditioner installations over last year and has its 16 technicians working long hours to install, replace and repair units taxed by the swelter.
A storm pattern in the Southwest contributed to California's fifth wettest July on record and Nevada experiencing its eighth wettest, NOAA said. Wetter-than-average conditions were also reported through the rest of the Southwest, along the western Gulf Coast, and through the Ohio Valley where West Virginia had its tenth wettest July.
The warm and dry conditions over a large swath of the United States were seen as ideal wildfire conditions, NOAA said. More than 2 million acres burned nationwide in July because of wildfires. That is nearly half a million acres above average, and the fourth most on record since 2000.
Over the weekend the fires that burned across the state damaged nearly 94,000 acres and on Monday a body was found in a Norman home. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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A 10-year deal signed Friday promises to stabilize Maryland's storied horse racing industry by encouraging capital improvements at Pimlico and Laurel Park and guaranteeing at least 100 live racing days each year, according to the state's track operators, horsemen and breeders.
Under the agreement, Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, the second jewel in the Triple Crown, and Laurel Park will remain open for year-round racing, training and stabling with at least 1,900 stalls through 2023. The coming racing season will feature 146 days, and added race days are possible. Terms of the revenue-sharing deal were not disclosed.
The Maryland Jockey Club, which operates Pimlico and Laurel, will unveil upgrades to the race courses in February. The deal also would close a training track in Bowie in the next 10 years.
"Today is a great day for Maryland's racing industry," said Gov. Martin O'Malley, who announced the deal Friday. "I applaud the incredible work of all the parties in reaching a deal that retains racing industry jobs and preserves the future of racing in Maryland for years to come."
The Maryland Racing Commission is expected to approve the 2013 race dates at its meeting Tuesday.
"For our loyal horsemen and the thousands of workers throughout the state who have supported Maryland racing during the difficult past decade, we will now have long-term stability, year-round racing and stabling, an attractive purse structure, promise for the breeding industry and a strong foundation to restore Maryland racing to its pre-eminence in North American racing," Alan Foreman, counsel for the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, said in a statement.
"For those who left Maryland for greener pastures," he added, "I think you will find that Maryland will soon become the centerpiece of racing in the Mid-Atlantic."
The deal follows years of uncertainty as Maryland's horse racing industry crept along on year-to-year deals negotiated at the last minute. The Jockey Club lost $5.3 million in 2011 and $20 million in 2010. Meanwhile, Annapolis lawmakers wrestled over how to structure legalized gambling in the state, even as nearby states such as Pennsylvania and West Virginia found ways to strengthen the industry.
Eventually, the General Assembly agreed to allocate 7 percent of slot machine revenue toward horse racing purses and a smaller slice for track improvements. Jockey Club President Tom Chuckas said the slots revenue boosts money for owners, trainers and jockeys, leading to better horses and racing, and more patrons.
Purse money is expected to increase when casinos open in Baltimore and in Prince George's County.
Tim Capps, a former Jockey Club executive and now director of the Equine Industry Program at the University of Louisville, said the new agreement is reason for guarded optimism. The industry's success in Maryland will depend on whether stakeholders can remain "friendly and harmonious" and live up to their promises, he said.
"I am glad to see them come to an agreement, and I hope that it's lasting," Capps said. "Right now, it's a good thing, because it creates the notion of stability. The question for the long term is, how is the health of the racetracks themselves, can they get back into a much more reasonable financial situation where they can be sustainable for the long term?"
A decade-long agreement buys the industry time, Capps said. "There is a window now for the industry to work with."
Chuckas said the agreement, in the works since January, provides the stability to justify investments in capital projects at Pimlico and Laurel Park. He declined to discuss proposed projects until a plan is submitted to the Maryland Racing Commission in February.
After the Bowie facility closes, horses would be relocated to Laurel and Pimlico, which hasn't hosted horses year-round since 2001, said Mike Gathagan, a Jockey Club vice president.
Stakeholders praised the agreement.
Chuckas said it was the first time the tracks, the horsemen and the breeders had reached a "true partnership."
Cricket Goodall, executive director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, said the agreement was critical for the future of racing in the state, especially for breeders.
"There was a lot of concern when we just had year-to-year deals," Goodall said. "We've been working toward revitalizing the industry since slot money start moving. We want to encourage people to come back and do their business here."
Frank Stronach, chairman of the Stronach Group, which owns Pimlico, Laurel Park and the Jockey Club, said the deal shows a joint commitment.
"It is our vision to encourage people to invest in Maryland racing," he said in a statement.


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The campaign is working closely with the community to seek designation of Cotoni-Coast Dairies as a National Monument by Congress and President Obama. The campaign is also coordinating with local government and community groups to incorporate community input into the monument designation process. Learn more here: www.cotonicoastdairies.org
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The final financial piece of a multiyear effort to protect 8,500 acres of forest overlooking the Pacific Ocean clicked into place Thursday, when a state agency approved $10 million toward the deal.
CEMEX Redwoods becomes San Vicente Redwoods
San Vicente Redwoods Press Release: The largest parcel of redwood forest in the San Francisco-San Jose area has a new name and a new future: Protected wildlife habitat, recreation and sustainable timber harvesting.


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When people think about Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, they envision the Wrangler. The Wrangler's iconic appearance is one that people relate to the rugged outdoors - terrain that this vehicle was designed to dominate. Bold, sturdy, and ready for adventure, this is the vehicle that we here at Eide Chrysler recommend to any Bismarck drivers looking to do some off-road exploration.
There is no part of the 2018 Wrangler that was not created to be able to withstand harsh terrain. The Sway Bar Disconnect system gives you the ability to disconnect the front sway bar when you are driving in (4LO mode) at speeds lower than 18 miles per hour (mph). This lets the front wheels drop up to an additional 29 percent. The Dana 44 Heavy-Duty Axle helps to make your ride both quieter and smoother, and also gives you some extra ground clearance. If you go with the Rubicon model, you will get Tru-Lok Locking Differentials (to improve traction), Mud Terrain T/A tires, and electronic sway bar disconnect. All Wrangler models are built to give you a substantial amount of ground clearance at 10 inches, as well as an approach angle of 42.2 degrees, a breakover angle of 25.8 degrees, and a departure angle of 32.3 degrees.
Under the hood, the 2018 Wrangler has all it needs to make it the ruler of off-road. The standard engine is a 3.6 liter (L) Pentastar V6 capable of spitting out 285 horsepower (hp) and 260 pound-feet (lb-ft) of torque, paired with either a five-speed automatic or six-speed manual transmission. There are two different 4x4 systems offered on the newest Wrangler: The Command-Trac and the Rock-Trac. Command-Trac ensures that equal amounts of power arrive at all four corners of the vehicle, while the Rock-Trac gives you a 4:1 low-gear ratio, improving your ability to crawl over rocks at a lower speed with more torque in the wheels. Should you plan on towing with your Wrangler, you will be happy to know that it has the ability to tow up to 3,500 pounds (lbs).
Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram has made sure to augment the Wrangler's exceptional 4x4 capabilities with safety measures to ensure that no matter where you are roaming, you will be protected. The B-pillar is bolstered by high-strength steel in order to improve the vehicle's stiffness and reduce the force of side-impact. The mid-mounted fuel tank is protected by wide-spaced frame rails between the wheels. In the event of any understeering or oversteering, Electronic Stability Control, in tandem with Electronic Roll Mitigation, works to correct that and also minimize the chances of a rollover. If you are planning on using your Wrangler to do any towing, the Trailer Sway Control feature will help to keep your trailer on the correct course while you are driving.
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Where No Penguin Has Gone Before
Is embedded Linux a success? Judging from the steady stream of new devices coming to fruition, it certainly is. In this month's column, we learn of an incursion by Tux into the arctic region of the globe—perhaps a search for Santa? Then we take a brief look at a handful of other cool gadgets that run on embedded Linux.
Thanks to a project of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a webcam has been installed for the first time at the North Pole—one that runs on embedded Linux, no less. The device was installed on April 28, 2002 and is logging four images a day—take a look at NOAA's web site: www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html.
Figure 1. North Pole NetCam
The webcam's images will track the North Pole snow cover, weather conditions and the status of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory's North Pole instrumentation, according to James Overland, head of NOAA's North Pole Project.
Although the webcam is capable of transmitting camera video at the rate of one image per second, NOAA keeps the device powered off most of the time in order to conserve its solar-charged battery power. Four times a day the webcam wakes up, places a phone call via the Iridium low Earth orbit satellite system and transfers the latest images at 2,400 baud to NOAA's servers using PPP.
The webcam being used is the NetCam from StarDot Technologies, a 20-person company located in Buena Park, California. StarDot created their first webcam design in 1996, developed a custom digital camera control chip in 1997 and went on to sell over 65,000 webcams based on that design (manufactured by a Taiwanese partner and imported to the US by StarDot).
Figure 2. StarDot Technologies NetCam
The NetCam's embedded computer, which runs µClinux (www.uclinux.org), is based on a 54MHz Motorola ColdFire microprocessor equipped with 8MB of RAM memory and 2MB of nonvolatile Flash memory. I/O ports include a pair of RS-232 serial ports, a 10Mbps Ethernet port, an I2C serial bus and four bits of digital I/O. The device implements a web server function based on Boa (www.boa.org), which allows it to be accessed remotely from a web browser anywhere in the world, provided it's connected to the Internet via either Ethernet, modem or wireless. (See www.stardot-tech.com.)
snom 100 VoIP Phone: The snom VoIP phone supports a wide range of open telephony standards including SIP, H.323/H.450 and Asterisk, along with data protocols like HTTP, TAPI and LDAP. The company says the snom 100's IP-based voice quality is indistinguishable from that of "normal" ISDN phones and, in addition, the 128 × 64 pixel graphical LCD display and web-browser interface make calling, remote management and configuration even easier. In addition to its IP functionality, the device also provides typical telephone features like call hold, call waiting, call forward/transfer, call divert, caller line identification, and so on. Inside the snom 100, there's a 50MHz Motorola MPC855T PowerQUICC Integrated Communications processor equipped with 16MB of RAM. The system's embedded OS, based on a Linux 2.4.18 kernel, was developed in-house, and snom created their own drivers and libraries for the use of the 128 × 64 pixel graphical LCD and even wrote their own embedded HTTP server. (See www.snomag.de/snom100_en.htm.)
Figure 3. snom Phone
hippo Internet Phone: The hippo Internet Phone looks a lot like an ordinary desktop telephone, but it can make calls over either Ethernet LAN or normal telephone lines (via PPP, through the user's local ISP). Instead of being carried as analog signals over normal phone lines, the calls are carried digitally over the Internet. At the other end, the calls can be received by either another Internet Phone (PC-based or dedicated Internet Phones) or by a standard PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) telephone anywhere in the world, including cell phones. Obviously, substantial reductions in phone bills are possible using this approach because no long-distance phone service is necessary. The hippo Internet Phone has a 4 × 20 character LCD screen, a 12-button telephone keypad, six function keys and a telephone handset with hook/switch, ringer and normal-sounding dial and call progress tones that simulate "normal" telephone operation. Inside hippo's Internet Phone is an embedded computer based on a 48MHz Motorola MPC850/823 PowerPC system-on-chip processor that is equipped with 16MB of DRAM and also runs an embedded Linux OS derived from MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux. (See www.hippoinc.com.)
Figure 4. hippo Internet Phone
SONICblue Rio Central: This high-fidelity home stereo component that stores up to 650 CDs' worth of music on its built-in 40GB hard drive is said to be "as simple to use as a CD player, but as smart as a PC"--a Linux-based PC, that is. The system is intended to function as a standalone audio system, making it easy to store your music ("you load your CDs, the device does the rest") and create an essentially unlimited number of customized playlists. Thereafter, a large display, intuitive interface and advanced search features are meant to make it easy to find the music you want instantly. Plus, the system optionally offers suggestions based on your tracked listening habits. Inside, there's a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor along with 16MB of system RAM, running an embedded Linux OS derived by the system's developers from Debian/ARM sources. In addition to its standalone operation, the Rio Central can also be used as the basis of a broader Rio experience, serving one or more companion Rio Receiver thin clients (which also run embedded Linux) via HomePNA (phone line networking) or Ethernet. It also can download files to Rio portable MP3 players via USB. The device is broadband-ready (via an external USB-to-Ethernet adapter), includes a built-in 56Kbit/sec modem (for users without broadband access) and provides a 10Mbps HomePNA connection. (See www.sonicblue.com.)
Cyclades Device Server: The Cyclades TS100 is a powerful yet highly compact device server used to connect various serial devices to a TCP/IP network. Typical applications include industrial automation and control, out-of-band network management, retail automation and connecting various types of serially interfaced devices to networks. The device provides interface ports for both 10/100Mb Ethernet and RS-232/RS-485 serial lines, allowing it to integrate legacy instruments and systems having serial interfaces to broadband networks using TCP/IP. Unlike its competitors, which are typically based on proprietary software models, the TS100's built-in embedded Linux OS and other open-source software make it easy to customize operation of the TS100. Although not much larger than a deck of playing cards (2.8" × 3.4" × 1.2"), the TS100 contains not just one but two microprocessors. This is possible thanks to the use of Motorola's MPC855T "PowerQUICC Integrated Communications Processor". The MPC855T is a dual-core system-on-chip processor that includes a PowerPC core processor (running at 50MHz) plus a separate RISC engine specifically designed to off-load communication tasks. Memory resources consist of 16MB of SDRAM, plus a 4MB Flash disk from which the firmware is uncompressed and loaded into a RAM disk at boot time. The device's embedded Linux OS is based on a 2.2.14 kernel, along with a variety of open-source utilities including the GoAhead web server (for web-based setup and management of the device), Portslave, OpenSSH 3.1, crontab, BusyBox, net-tools, rsyncm and others. Cylades started from MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux 1.2 and added their own in-house customization. (See www.cyclades.com.)
Figure 6. Cyclades TS100
Linksys Wireless Presentation Gateway: Using this embedded Linux-powered device, wireless mobile PC users can project presentations and other data using VGA-equipped devices such as multimedia projectors, monitors and LCD panels without having to physically wire each PC to the projector. The WPG11 lets users take turns controlling the display instantly. Users are each assigned unique key codes for access and control of the device. Because cabling and setup time is eliminated, WiFi-enabled users can take turns controlling the presentation display simply by typing in the pre-assigned key codes. In real time, participants can offer instant visual input that follows the verbal discussion. Perhaps it even solves the inevitable incompatibilities between the laptops and the projectors? (See www.linksys.com.)
Figure 7. Linksys Wireless Presentation Gateway
Keep abreast of all the latest cool gadgets that have Linux embedded inside by visiting LinuxDevices.com's on-line "Embedded Linux Cool Devices Quick Reference Guide": www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4936596231.html.
Rick Lehrbaum (email@example.com) created the LinuxDevices.com and DesktopLinux.com web sites. Rick has worked in the field of embedded systems since 1979. He cofounded Ampro Computers, founded the PC/104 Consortium and was instrumental in creating and launching the Embedded Linux Consortium.


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"Where is Egypt going?" a driver named Mohamed asked me recently. It is the question on everyone's mind as the Arab Spring of popular revolution is giving way to the new season of free elections this autumn.
At this unique moment in history, there are two critical challenges that face this nation at the heart of the Arab world. The first is how to further catalyze and consolidate the democratic transition through re-establishing unity among all Egyptians. The second is the related issue of achieving a commitment to peace in the Middle East that is genuinely supported by the Egyptian public.
In the months since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the road to democracy has been rocky, but the spirit of optimism is still high. I remember the thousands of people who lined up across Tahrir Square at the entrance to the American University in Cairo to witness the announcement of the National Project for Scientific Renaissance and the building of the new City of Science and Technology.
At last, it was felt, Egypt would be rejoining the future that had been blocked by dictatorship. My nationally televised speech on that occasion was entitled "Musr al-Amal" – Egypt: The Hope.
That optimism was shaken by an event that took place on the last Friday of July, when the world witnessed the largest demonstration since the "dethroning" of Mr. Mubarak. The Islamists gathered there called for the new Egypt to be governed according to strict sharia law. The display of Saudi-like flags among the crowd prompted headlines such as "Bin Laden is in Tahrir."
Then, in September, came the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo in response to the killing of Egyptian servicemen by Israeli forces in Sinai. This caused great alarm, especially in the United States, about the security of Israel and the future of peace in the Middle East.
Despite the concerns raised by these troubling events, I remain optimistic about Egypt's future. The Egyptians are no longer fearful of their rulers, they know how to demonstrate, and they are determined to change governance. But certain guiding tenets must now be followed.
First, Egyptian society must focus on its long-term aims and goals. After the historic revolution it is unconscionable for the media to divert people's energy with triviality and continue with its shallow methods of the past. The country needs to have a constructive discourse on the fundamental issues that matter, such as establishing the principles of the constitution that address religion and governance, revamping the education system, and boosting the stalled economy.
Second, it would be a mistake to unjustly alienate all people who were associated with the fallen regime. This large number of people should be regarded as fellow citizens whose resources and energy should be redirected toward, not against, the building of the future. Egypt cannot afford to have the vital energy of its active intellectuals absorbed by the past or its political leaders consumed by what slice of the "cake of the revolution" they can get.
Securing democracy will require that the significant divergence of ideologies and political alignments that have emerged in recent months must once again be put aside to fulfill the common aim that first united the people: the fall of the system, or iskat al-nizam.
Lastly, but most importantly, the Army and government must chart a clear road map for the weeks and months ahead.
The Egyptian public still highly respects the military, but they are wary that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces remains the main political entity governing the transition to democracy. This fact – and the fact that the supreme council is dragging its feet – unsettles everyone who recalls the machinations of the previous regime that frustrated democratic aspirations.
The best cure for this suspicion is clarity and communication from the supreme council on a timetable for the upcoming elections and where the council stands on a number of issues – the emergency law, the military courts, and the voting of Egyptians abroad. It must also specify how and when the new government will be put in place. The massive demonstrations in Tahrir Square on Friday are continuing. In order to push forward, the country needs stability and security.
One way to bridge the trust gap with the public might be through the establishment of a council of eminent citizens who can mediate between civil society and the governing regime as the transition takes place. In Poland, such a "roundtable" between Solidarity and the military rulers guided the transition to democracy there toward the end of the Cold War.
The present confusion and distrust threaten the advance of the "economic revolution," or thawrat al-giaa, upon which success or failure of the revolution ultimately rests, and chaos may become unmanageable. For this reason alone we must make the political transition properly and as soon as possible.
In the context of this state of affairs, it would be a mistake to extrapolate the current strain between Egypt and Israel to an ending of the peace treaty between the two countries. During the height of the revolution, there were no banners against Israel in Tahrir Square. The current Israeli ambassador has repeatedly said that before the recent riots at the embassy, he was never mistreated by the people. What ignited the anger of the young people who attacked the embassy was the killing of the servicemen in Egyptian territory in Sinai and statements of support for Mubarak as "the best friend of Israel" by officials in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Since the revolution, Egyptians feel that "we the people," not the rulers, must decide what kind of relationship there will be with Israel. The desired peace in the region now requires peace with 90 million Egyptians and not with a single ruler who silenced them with his security forces.
Following Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, the whole Middle East is now awakening. Naturally, the spirit of the Arab Spring will extend to Arabs in Palestine, who will demand the end of occupation just as Egyptians demanded the end of dictatorship.
In response, the major powers should not position themselves against the current of history. Instead, they should commit to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the creation of a new state based on the pre-1967 war borders.
Such a course is in the best interests of the world community because it will minimize violence and shift the energies of the Arab people toward building their own states instead of perennially focusing on the conflict with Israel. At this decisive moment, whoever uses the Arab-Israeli conflict for political gain is guilty of a crime against hope.
The highest priority of all in this critical historical moment is not to allow the hopes and aspirations of the Arab Spring to be derailed by disunity or manipulation of the heated emotions that have long swirled around the central issue of peace in the Middle East.
Ahmed Zewail is the 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, and the first US science envoy to the Middle East.
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